Social And Emotional Learning Courses

Emergence of Inequalities and Biases in Social Networks - Fariba Karimi

Explore how social networks perpetuate inequalities and biases, focusing on gender disparities in academia and strategies to address structural imbalances.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Prediction and Explanation in the Social Sciences - Jake Hofman

Explore predictive modeling and explanatory approaches in social sciences, examining their strengths, limitations, and implications for understanding complex social phenomena.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Validating Daily Social Media Macroscopes of Emotions

Explore how social media sentiment analysis can accurately measure daily emotional dynamics of online communities, validated through surveys and applied to COVID-19 impact studies.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Why "Self-Generated Learning" May Be More Radical and Consequential Than First Appears

Explore self-generated learning's radical impact on cognitive development through data-driven insights, experiments, and complex dynamic systems analysis with Linda Smith.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cascading Transitions in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Explore cascading transitions in psycho-social systems, focusing on opinion change, learning, and addiction. Discover how these multilevel processes work and their potential impacts on society.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rational Ignorance - Optimal Learning from Complex Mechanistic Models

Explore optimal Bayesian learning from complex models, challenging traditional approaches and proposing a new method to maximize expected information while avoiding bias in multiparameter systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design

Exploring social computing's impact on scientific research, team diversity, and human-AI collaboration in the pursuit of novel insights and wisdom.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Seminal Role of Social Networks and Cities in Pandemics, Innovation & Sustainability - Geoffrey West

Explore the role of social networks and cities in pandemics, innovation, and sustainability with Geoffrey West. Gain insights into complex adaptive systems and their impact on global challenges.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scientific Machine Learning - Where Physics-based Modeling Meets Data-driven Learning

Explore the synergy of physics-based modeling and data-driven learning in scientific machine learning, addressing complex challenges in science, engineering, and medicine with interpretable and scalable solutions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Mirta Galesic on Social Learning and Decision-Making

Explore social learning and decision-making with Mirta Galesic. Discover how cognitive mechanisms interact with environments to shape complex social phenomena and strategies for coping with uncertainty in everyday decisions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Experiments in Social Computation - C4 Public Lectures

Explore social computation through experiments on graph coloring, consensus, and network formation. Gain insights into collective problem-solving and strategic interactions in distributed networks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reasons Why Social Networks Make Us Vulnerable to Misinformation

Explore how cognitive, social, and algorithmic biases in social networks make us susceptible to misinformation, and learn about efforts to counter online opinion manipulation.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Language Learning, Language Use, and The Evolution of Linguistic Structure

Explores the interplay between language learning, use, and evolution through experiments on artificial languages, interaction, and cultural transmission, revealing insights into linguistic structure formation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Social Networks, Protest, and Repression

Explores the relationship between social network structures and protest dynamics, revealing nonlinear patterns in mobilization and offering insights into state repression strategies.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Estimating Indirect Effects in a Wild and Anti-Social Mammal

Exploring indirect genetic effects in wild red squirrels, examining how spatial and temporal neighbors influence phenotypes and potential evolutionary impacts in varying population densities.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video